English youth players at city

[woahmark]

The Dutch had several generations of brilliant young footballplayers. France did, Spain did, now it's Germany's turn.
Maybe the English FA should copy the Olympic model as it brought foreward so many talented athletes.

I'm sorry to nitpick, but I'd argue that Spain still has generations of young footballers; Isco, Thiago, Tello, Deulofeu, Jese Rodriguez, Bartra, Sergi Samper, Munainian, Oliver Torres, Hector Bellerin, Alberto Moreno, Denis Suarez, Pozo...etc. There are loads and loads, those are all off the top of my head. Just look at the u21 side for example.

With more emphasis being put on youth development in Spain (partly due to financial crisis a lot of clubs are in at the moment), it looks like it will continue.

 

[It could have been 10]

This doesn't concern me too much as football at youth level goes in cycles. We don't have anyone at U21 level because we have no 21, 20, 19 year old English players who are good enough. If you have a look at the 21, 20 and 19 year olds we have they are Harry Bunn, Reece Wabara and Kieran Kennedy. All not good enough for our EDS side so obviously not good enough for the U21's.

If you have a look at the next group down the 17-18 year olds every single one of them is an England youth international, Evans, Plummer, Facey, Hiwula, Glendon, Leigh, Gunn, Hutton, Cole.

You look further again at the 15-16 year olds and the likes of Bryan, Adarabioyo, Boadu and Humphries are all England youth internationals.

So there are 13 lads aged between 15 and 18 who play for us that are good enough to play for their country at that level. What should happen now is the 8 lads in the 17-18 bracket should be given the right development to continue playing for their country right up until the U21's. Instead what seems to happen here in the last few years is that they stagnate and even degress and get taken over by other lads their age at other clubs. That is either because there are no reserves games to play in (11/12 season), inadequate coaching staff (welsh and lombardo), terrible loans or we are bringing in foreign youngster after youngster who are taking the place of our promising english youngsters.

What should happen now is the likes of Evans, Plummer, Facey, Hiwula, Glendon, Leigh, Gunn, Hutton and Cole should be given the correct development and we should see a couple of them in the next U21 tournament in 2015, be interesting to see what happens.

Also Ashley Smith-Brown.

 

[WNRH]

This doesn't concern me too much as football at youth level goes in cycles. We don't have anyone at U21 level because we have no 21, 20, 19 year old English players who are good enough. If you have a look at the 21, 20 and 19 year olds we have they are Harry Bunn, Reece Wabara and Kieran Kennedy. All not good enough for our EDS side so obviously not good enough for the U21's.

If you have a look at the next group down the 17-18 year olds every single one of them is an England youth international, Evans, Plummer, Facey, Hiwula, Glendon, Leigh, Gunn, Hutton, Cole.

You look further again at the 15-16 year olds and the likes of Bryan, Adarabioyo, Boadu and Humphries are all England youth internationals.

So there are 13 lads aged between 15 and 18 who play for us that are good enough to play for their country at that level. What should happen now is the 8 lads in the 17-18 bracket should be given the right development to continue playing for their country right up until the U21's. Instead what seems to happen here in the last few years is that they stagnate and even degress and get taken over by other lads their age at other clubs. That is either because there are no reserves games to play in (11/12 season), inadequate coaching staff (welsh and lombardo), terrible loans or we are bringing in foreign youngster after youngster who are taking the place of our promising english youngsters.

What should happen now is the likes of Evans, Plummer, Facey, Hiwula, Glendon, Leigh, Gunn, Hutton and Cole should be given the correct development and we should see a couple of them in the next U21 tournament in 2015, be interesting to see what happens.

Also Ashley Smith-Brown.

And also Dominic McHale i forgot as well.

 

[SheeshKebab]

I think George Evans is going to be a cracking player for us in the future

 

[chesterguy]

I also think that one of the issues for young players is money

In this country a good player like Wilshire, Rodwell by the time they are 21 they have earned so much money they could retire and live well for the rest of their lives

I wonder if the same is true in other countries I doubt it. The EPL is the richest league in the world and our players earn more than most of their counterparts abroad so I just wonder do the players have it too easy too soon and so rather than worry about their football development they get too easily distracted M Johnson A Johnson and Carroll to name but a few